Not Sleeping Here!

Charming Scandinavian musical fragrance. Fragrance number 357 or so. I told you before, Scandinavians are pouring artistic human beings into the world’s musical market; and not only. This time it’s The Kissaway Trail, a band form Denmark that step up to dazzle with their second LP entitled Sleep Mountain. There is such a strong feeling of a musical grandeur when listening to this gathering of idyllic like songs.

The voice is sweet and with a true matching passion to the sound made by all instruments that we’ve come accustomed to in these last decades of contemporary music. The sound is not completely fresh, it does contain the youthful/innocent touch, but it can also give a certain reminiscent feeling. Whether it’s from the vocal timbre or even more from the overall orchestration. Nevertheless even if we’ve heard it already, The Kissaway Trail scent here is not just burrowing but rather developing the strong influences, thus challenging and succeeding to capture attention.

It is really laudable the fact that this album can easily face a chameleonic attribute or better say function. If originally I declared the album as a passionable romanticized statement, I then, just as easily, pictured it as a genius soundtrack. Philadelphia for the perfect kiss scene, Sdp for an editing of happy scenes, New Lipstick for a bike ride on a sunny day, even Enemy for a sad or a pensive scene where the character is rummaging through his memories. The track called Friendly Fire could be used in a reuniting scene, Prelude for a dramatic ending or the song Don’t Wake Up, for a Hollywood ending. And even though the lyrics may not fit at all, quite poetic and strong ones I may say about every one of them, the sound alone is a tour de force. It proves eloquence, consistency, composition, elegance and class performances from each instrument.

An album that is simply delightful from top to bottom is to be congratulated and made reason for a request of as many more like these or better to follow. From The Kissaway Trail, from anybody, but let there be known that The Kissaway Trail with Sleep Mountain are on that list of plain good albums. Listen to it loud and it will capture you.

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